Maura Marx

Maura Marx

Maura Marx is a Fellow and Executive Director of the Open Knowledge
Commons (OKC),a nonprofit organization that works with libraries,
archives and museums (LAMS) to help create the broadest possible public
access to knowledge. OKC's efforts are dedicated to bringing vast
quantities of archived paper materials in LAMS online by catalyzing
large-scale digitization collaborations among institutions. OKC founded
the Medical Heritage Library in 2010.

Previously, she founded the digital library program at the Boston
Public Library (BPL) and was responsible for its dedication to open
principles. While at BPL she served on the inaugural Board of the Digital Commonwealth, the first Massachusetts statewide digital library. Her interests are in cultural heritage, collaboration
and the promotion of all types of open knowledge. Before coming to Boston she worked in the rare book trade,
museums and the film business in Austria, Switzerland
and the UK. She has a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. from Middlebury College and an M.S.L.I.S. from Simmons College.